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Battle commences
5:57 PM on 14 April 2008
Slugs v hostas round 1. My hostas are just beginning to peep through the soil and my annual battle against the enemy slug has begun. I am a largely organic gardener so my first line of defence is an early application of nematodes. My second line of defence is physical barriers against the snails – I use plastic circles cut from squash bottles immediately around the crowns and also use a mulch of grit around them. Third defence – physical removal. I used to take them for a long walk to another location until an experiment revealed that most of them just walked back again. Enough said... walkies are much shorter now. I am a professional and commercial member of the organic society and eagerly try out all their suggestion – although sitting naked in the garden and scaring them was even too much for me. Well must go... nightly slug patrol commences...
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